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slack-jawed
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slatternly
collapse
related words >
beat-up
,
bedraggled
,
blowsy
,
blowzy
,
careless
,
chintzy
,
dilapidated
,
dirty
,
disheveled
,
disordered
,
dowdy
,
drabbletailed
,
draggled
,
draggletailed
,
filthy
,
foul
,
frowsy
,
frowzy
,
frumpish
,
frumpy
,
grimy
,
grubby
,
in rags
,
informal
,
loose
,
lumpen
,
messy
,
mussy
,
neglected
,
negligent
,
poky
,
ragged
,
raggedy
,
ruinous
,
scraggly
,
seedy
,
shabby
,
shoddy
,
slack
,
slattern
,
slipshod
,
sloppy
,
slovenly
,
sluttish
,
sordid
,
squalid
,
tacky
,
tattered
,
unkempt
,
unneat
,
unsightly
,
untidy
scamping
collapse
related words >
cheeseparing
,
culpably negligent
,
derelict
,
frugal
,
frugal to excess
,
inadvertent
,
inattentive
,
laissez-faire
,
lax
,
loose
,
neglectful
,
neglecting
,
negligent
,
noninterfering
,
nonrestrictive
,
off-guard
,
overfrugal
,
overly permissive
,
parsimonious
,
penny-wise
,
penny-wise and pound-foolish
,
permissive
,
procrastinating
,
relaxed
,
remiss
,
scrimping
,
skimping
,
slack
,
slighting
,
slurring
,
sparing
,
stinting
,
too frugal
,
uncircumspect
,
unguarded
,
unrigorous
,
unwary
,
unwatchful
draggled
collapse
related words >
beat-up
,
bedraggled
,
befouled
,
besmirched
,
blowzy
,
careless
,
chintzy
,
defiled
,
dilapidated
,
dirtied
,
drabbled
,
drabbletailed
,
draggletailed
,
fouled
,
frowzy
,
frumpish
,
frumpy
,
grubby
,
in rags
,
informal
,
loose
,
lumpen
,
messy
,
mussy
,
negligent
,
poky
,
ragged
,
raggedy
,
ruinous
,
scraggly
,
seedy
,
shabby
,
shoddy
,
slack
,
slatternly
,
slipshod
,
sloppy
,
slovenly
,
sluttish
,
smirched
,
smudged
,
soiled
,
sordid
,
spotted
,
squalid
,
stained
,
sullied
,
tacky
,
tainted
,
tarnished
,
tattered
,
unkempt
,
unneat
,
unsightly
,
untidy
juggler
collapse
a performer who juggles objects and performs tricks of manual dexterity
related words >
acrobat
,
aerialist
,
bareback rider
,
blackleg
,
cheat
,
cheater
,
chiseler
,
circus artist
,
clown
,
conjurer
,
cozener
,
crook
,
defrauder
,
diddler
,
equestrian director
,
equilibrist
,
escamoteur
,
flier
,
flimflam man
,
flimflammer
,
gyp artist
,
gypper
,
high-wire artist
,
illusionist
,
lion tamer
,
magician
,
prestidigitator
,
ringmaster
,
slack-rope artist
,
sleight-of-hand performer
,
snake charmer
,
swindler
,
sword swallower
,
tightrope walker
,
trapeze artist
,
tricker
,
trickster
,
tumbler
,
two-timer
mitigate
collapse
make less severe or harsh; "mitigating circumstances"
related words >
abate
,
accommodate
,
adapt
,
adjust
,
adjust to
,
allay
,
alleviate
,
allow for
,
alter
,
ameliorate
,
anesthetize
,
appease
,
assuage
,
attemper
,
attenuate
,
bank the fire
,
bate
,
be changed
,
be converted into
,
be renewed
,
benumb
,
better
,
blunt
,
bottom out
,
box in
,
break
,
break up
,
calm
,
change
,
chasten
,
checker
,
chop
,
chop and change
,
circumscribe
,
color
,
come about
,
come around
,
come round
,
condition
,
constrain
,
control
,
convert
,
cramp
,
cripple
,
cushion
,
damp
,
dampen
,
de-emphasize
,
deaden
,
deaden the pain
,
debilitate
,
decrease
,
deform
,
degenerate
,
denature
,
deteriorate
,
deviate
,
devitalize
,
dilute
,
diminish
,
diverge
,
diversify
,
downplay
,
dull
,
ease
,
ease matters
,
ease off
,
ease up
,
enervate
,
enfeeble
,
eviscerate
,
exhaust
,
extenuate
,
fit
,
flop
,
foment
,
give relief
,
gloss over
,
gruel
,
haul around
,
hedge
,
hedge about
,
ignore
,
improve
,
jibe
,
keep within bounds
,
lay
,
lay low
,
leaven
,
lenify
,
lessen
,
let down
,
let up
,
let up on
,
lighten
,
limit
,
loose
,
loosen
,
lull
,
make allowance for
,
meliorate
,
mince
,
moderate
,
modify
,
modulate
,
mollify
,
mutate
,
narrow
,
numb
,
obtund
,
overthrow
,
pad
,
palliate
,
placate
,
play down
,
poultice
,
pour balm into
,
pour oil on
,
qualify
,
rattle
,
re-create
,
realign
,
rebuild
,
reconstruct
,
redesign
,
reduce
,
reduce the temperature
,
refit
,
reform
,
regulate by
,
relax
,
relieve
,
remake
,
remit
,
renew
,
reshape
,
restrain
,
restrict
,
restructure
,
revamp
,
revive
,
ring the changes
,
salve
,
sap
,
season
,
set conditions
,
set limits
,
shake
,
shake up
,
shift
,
shift the scene
,
shuffle the cards
,
slack
,
slack off
,
slack up
,
slacken
,
slake
,
slow down
,
slur over
,
smother
,
sober
,
sober down
,
soft-pedal
,
soften
,
soften up
,
soothe
,
stifle
,
still
,
stupe
,
subdue
,
subvert
,
suppress
,
swerve
,
tack
,
take a turn
,
tame
,
temper
,
tone down
,
tune down
,
turn
,
turn aside
,
turn into
,
turn the corner
,
turn the scale
,
turn the tables
,
turn the tide
,
turn upside down
,
unbend
,
unbrace
,
undergo a change
,
undermine
,
underplay
,
unman
,
unnerve
,
unstrain
,
unstrengthen
,
unstring
,
varnish
,
vary
,
veer
,
warp
,
water down
,
weaken
,
whitewash
,
work a change
,
worsen
sluttish
collapse
related words >
beat-up
,
bedraggled
,
blowzy
,
botched
,
bungling
,
careless
,
chintzy
,
clumsy
,
deficient
,
dilapidated
,
drabbletailed
,
draggled
,
draggletailed
,
frowzy
,
frumpish
,
frumpy
,
grubby
,
half-assed
,
haphazard
,
hit-and-miss
,
hit-or-miss
,
in rags
,
informal
,
loose
,
lumpen
,
messy
,
mussy
,
negligent
,
poky
,
promiscuous
,
ragged
,
raggedy
,
ruinous
,
scraggly
,
seedy
,
shabby
,
shoddy
,
slack
,
slatternly
,
slipshod
,
slipshoddy
,
sloppy
,
slovenly
,
sordid
,
squalid
,
tacky
,
tattered
,
unkempt
,
unneat
,
unsightly
,
untidy
raggedy
collapse
related words >
beat-up
,
bedraggled
,
blowzy
,
careless
,
chintzy
,
dilapidated
,
dowdy
,
down-at-heel
,
down-at-the-heels
,
drabbletailed
,
draggled
,
draggletailed
,
frayed
,
frazzled
,
frowzy
,
frumpish
,
frumpy
,
full of holes
,
grubby
,
holey
,
in rags
,
in shreds
,
in tatters
,
informal
,
loose
,
lumpen
,
messy
,
mussy
,
negligent
,
patchy
,
poky
,
ragged
,
ratty
,
ruinous
,
scraggly
,
scruffy
,
seedy
,
shabby
,
shoddy
,
slack
,
slatternly
,
slipshod
,
sloppy
,
slovenly
,
sluttish
,
sordid
,
squalid
,
tacky
,
tattered
,
tatty
,
torn
,
unkempt
,
unneat
,
unsightly
,
untidy
hold back
collapse
related words >
abstain
,
abstain from
,
arrest
,
avoid
,
avoid excess
,
backpedal
,
backwater
,
begrudge
,
bit
,
block
,
bottle up
,
brake
,
bridle
,
check
,
clip the wings
,
close the hand
,
confine
,
conserve
,
constrain
,
contain
,
control
,
cool
,
cool off
,
countercheck
,
curb
,
curtail
,
dam up
,
damp
,
dampen
,
decelerate
,
delay
,
deny
,
detain
,
dispense with
,
do without
,
dompt
,
drag
,
draw rein
,
ease off
,
ease up
,
eat sparingly
,
eat to live
,
enjoin
,
eschew
,
exercise self-control
,
forbear
,
forgo
,
govern
,
grudge
,
guard
,
hinder
,
hold
,
hold aloof from
,
hold at bay
,
hold down
,
hold fast
,
hold in
,
hold in check
,
hold in leash
,
hold off
,
hold out on
,
hold up
,
husband
,
impede
,
inhibit
,
intercept
,
interfere
,
intermeddle
,
interrupt
,
intervene
,
keep
,
keep back
,
keep by one
,
keep from
,
keep in
,
keep in check
,
keep in hand
,
keep in reserve
,
keep in store
,
keep on hand
,
keep out
,
keep under control
,
keep within bounds
,
keep within compass
,
keep within limits
,
lag
,
lay by
,
lay under restraint
,
let alone
,
let down
,
let go by
,
let up
,
live plainly
,
lose ground
,
lose momentum
,
lose speed
,
make late
,
meddle
,
moderate
,
mortify the flesh
,
never touch
,
not touch
,
not use
,
obstruct
,
oppose
,
pass up
,
preserve
,
prohibit
,
pull
,
pull in
,
put apart
,
put aside
,
put by
,
reef
,
refrain
,
refrain from
,
rein
,
rein in
,
relax
,
repress
,
reserve
,
resist
,
restrain
,
retain
,
retard
,
retrench
,
save
,
save up
,
scotch
,
set apart
,
set aside
,
set back
,
set by
,
shun
,
slack off
,
slack up
,
slacken
,
slow
,
slow down
,
slow up
,
snub
,
spare
,
stand aloof from
,
stay
,
stop
,
straiten
,
suppress
,
take in sail
,
throttle down
,
waive
,
withhold
unenterprising
collapse
lacking in enterprise; not bold or venturesome
related words >
bone-lazy
,
cadging
,
canny
,
careful
,
cautious
,
circumspect
,
deliberate
,
dilatory
,
discreet
,
do-nothing
,
doless
,
dronish
,
drony
,
easy
,
ergophobic
,
faineant
,
gingerly
,
good-for-nothing
,
guarded
,
heedful
,
hesitant
,
indolent
,
judicious
,
laggard
,
lax
,
lazy
,
leaving out nothing
,
mindful
,
nonaggressive
,
noncommittal
,
on guard
,
overlooking no possibility
,
parasitic
,
pawky
,
politic
,
procrastinative
,
prudent
,
regardful
,
remiss
,
safe
,
scrounging
,
shiftless
,
slack
,
slothful
,
slow
,
slow to act
,
sponging
,
tentative
,
thorough
,
unadventurous
,
uncommunicative
,
undaring
,
unprecipitate
,
work-shy
offal
collapse
viscera and trimmings of a butchered animal often considered inedible by humans
related words >
bilge
,
bilgewater
,
bones
,
carrion
,
chaff
,
culm
,
deadwood
,
debris
,
dishwater
,
ditchwater
,
draff
,
dregs
,
dust
,
filings
,
garbage
,
gash
,
hogwash
,
husks
,
junk
,
leavings
,
lees
,
litter
,
offscourings
,
orts
,
parings
,
potsherds
,
rags
,
raspings
,
refuse
,
riffraff
,
rubbish
,
scourings
,
scrap iron
,
scraps
,
scum
,
scurf
,
sewage
,
sewerage
,
shards
,
shavings
,
slack
,
slag
,
slop
,
slops
,
slough
,
stubble
,
sweepings
,
swill
,
tares
,
trash
,
wastage
,
waste
,
waste matter
,
wastepaper
,
weeds
shirk
collapse
avoid dealing with; "She shirks her duties"
related words >
abandon
,
avoid
,
bilk
,
burke
,
bypass
,
creep
,
cut
,
dodge
,
dog it
,
double
,
duck
,
duck duty
,
eschew
,
evade
,
fence
,
get around
,
get out of
,
goldbrick
,
goof off
,
gumshoe
,
jump
,
leave
,
leave loose ends
,
leave undone
,
let alone
,
let be
,
let dangle
,
let go
,
lurk
,
malinger
,
miss
,
not pull fair
,
omit
,
parry
,
pass over
,
pass up
,
pretermit
,
procrastinate
,
pussyfoot
,
shrink from
,
shun
,
sidestep
,
skip
,
skive
,
skulk
,
slack
,
slide out of
,
slink
,
slip
,
slip out of
,
snake
,
sneak out of
,
soldier
,
steal
,
trifle
,
welsh
spunkless
collapse
related words >
Laodicean
,
Olympian
,
aloof
,
apathetic
,
benumbed
,
blah
,
blase
,
chicken
,
comatose
,
coward
,
craven
,
desensitized
,
detached
,
disinterested
,
dull
,
gritless
,
gutless
,
heartless
,
hebetudinous
,
hopeless
,
in a stupor
,
indifferent
,
insouciant
,
languid
,
lethargic
,
lily-livered
,
listless
,
nonchalant
,
numb
,
numbed
,
passive
,
phlegmatic
,
pluckless
,
poltroon
,
poltroonish
,
pusillanimous
,
resigned
,
slack
,
sluggish
,
soporific
,
spiritless
,
stoic
,
stupefied
,
supine
,
torpid
,
uncaring
,
unconcerned
,
uncourageous
,
undaring
,
ungallant
,
unheroic
,
uninterested
,
unintrepid
,
unmanly
,
unsoldierlike
,
unsoldierly
,
unvaliant
,
unvalorous
,
withdrawn
abate
collapse
become less in amount or intensity; "The storm abated"; "The rain let up after a few hours"
related words >
ablate
,
abolish
,
abrade
,
abrogate
,
abstract
,
adjust to
,
allay
,
alleviate
,
allow
,
alter
,
anesthetize
,
annihilate
,
annul
,
appease
,
assuage
,
attemper
,
attenuate
,
bank the fire
,
bate
,
be eaten away
,
benumb
,
blot out
,
blunt
,
box in
,
charge off
,
chasten
,
circumscribe
,
close
,
condition
,
constrain
,
consume
,
consume away
,
control
,
corrode
,
cramp
,
cripple
,
crumble
,
curtail
,
cushion
,
cut
,
damp
,
dampen
,
de-emphasize
,
deaden
,
deaden the pain
,
debilitate
,
decline
,
decrease
,
deduct
,
deliquesce
,
depreciate
,
derogate
,
detract
,
devitalize
,
die away
,
die down
,
dilute
,
diminish
,
discount
,
disparage
,
dive
,
downplay
,
drain
,
drop
,
drop off
,
dull
,
dwindle
,
ease
,
ease matters
,
ease off
,
ease up
,
eat away
,
ebb
,
enervate
,
enfeeble
,
eradicate
,
erode
,
eviscerate
,
exhaust
,
extenuate
,
exterminate
,
extinguish
,
extirpate
,
extract
,
fall
,
fall away
,
fall off
,
file away
,
foment
,
give relief
,
gruel
,
hedge
,
hedge about
,
impair
,
invalidate
,
keep within bounds
,
kick back
,
languish
,
lay
,
lay low
,
leach
,
leaven
,
lenify
,
lessen
,
let down
,
let up
,
lighten
,
limit
,
loose
,
loosen
,
lull
,
make allowance
,
melt away
,
mitigate
,
moderate
,
modify
,
modulate
,
mollify
,
narrow
,
negate
,
nullify
,
numb
,
obtund
,
pad
,
palliate
,
play down
,
plummet
,
plunge
,
poultice
,
pour balm into
,
pour oil on
,
purify
,
qualify
,
quash
,
rattle
,
rebate
,
recede
,
reduce
,
reduce the temperature
,
refine
,
refund
,
regulate by
,
relax
,
relent
,
relieve
,
remit
,
remove
,
restrain
,
restrict
,
retrench
,
root out
,
rub away
,
run its course
,
run low
,
sag
,
salve
,
sap
,
season
,
set conditions
,
set limits
,
shake
,
shake up
,
shorten
,
shrink
,
sink
,
slack
,
slack off
,
slack up
,
slacken
,
slake
,
slow down
,
smother
,
sober
,
sober down
,
soften
,
soften up
,
soothe
,
stifle
,
stupe
,
subduct
,
subdue
,
subside
,
subtract
,
suppress
,
tail off
,
take a premium
,
take away
,
take from
,
take off
,
tame
,
taper
,
taper off
,
temper
,
thin
,
thin out
,
tone down
,
tune down
,
unbend
,
unbrace
,
undermine
,
underplay
,
undo
,
unman
,
unnerve
,
unstrain
,
unstrengthen
,
unstring
,
vitiate
,
wane
,
waste
,
waste away
,
water down
,
weaken
,
wear
,
wear away
,
weed
,
wipe out
,
withdraw
,
write off
overindulgent
collapse
excessively indulgent
related words >
accommodating
,
affable
,
agreeable
,
amiable
,
benevolent
,
benign
,
benignant
,
bibulous
,
careless
,
complaisant
,
compliant
,
crapulent
,
crapulous
,
decent
,
easy
,
easygoing
,
excessive
,
extravagant
,
extreme
,
generous
,
gluttonous
,
gracious
,
immoderate
,
impotent
,
imprecise
,
incontinent
,
indifferent
,
indulgent
,
inordinate
,
intemperate
,
kind
,
kindly
,
lax
,
lenient
,
loose
,
negligent
,
obliging
,
overindulging
,
overpermissive
,
permissive
,
prodigal
,
relaxed
,
remiss
,
self-indulgent
,
slack
,
slipshod
,
sloppy
,
soft
,
swinish
,
too much
,
unbridled
,
unconstrained
,
uncontrolled
,
undisciplined
,
unfrugal
,
unlimited
,
unmeasured
,
unrestrained
,
untempered
,
unthrifty
,
weak
dissolute
collapse
related words >
abandoned
,
amoral
,
contaminated
,
corrupt
,
corrupted
,
debased
,
debauched
,
decadent
,
degenerate
,
degraded
,
depraved
,
dissipated
,
fast
,
free
,
free-living
,
gallant
,
gay
,
hedonistic
,
high-living
,
immoral
,
incontinent
,
intemperate
,
lax
,
libidinous
,
licentious
,
light
,
loose
,
morally polluted
,
overindulgent
,
perverted
,
polluted
,
profligate
,
raffish
,
rakehell
,
rakehellish
,
rakehelly
,
rakish
,
reprobate
,
riotous
,
rotten
,
self-indulgent
,
slack
,
steeped in iniquity
,
tainted
,
unbridled
,
unprincipled
,
unrestrained
,
vice-corrupted
,
vitiated
,
wanton
,
warped
,
wayward
,
wild
slowing down
collapse
related words >
arrest
,
arrestation
,
check
,
constraint
,
control
,
cooling
,
cooling down
,
cooling off
,
curb
,
curtailment
,
deceleration
,
delay
,
detention
,
drag
,
ease-off
,
ease-up
,
flagging
,
hindrance
,
holdup
,
inhibition
,
injunction
,
interdict
,
lag
,
legal restraint
,
letdown
,
letup
,
minus acceleration
,
monopoly
,
obstruction
,
prohibition
,
protection
,
protectionism
,
protective tariff
,
rationing
,
rein
,
restraint
,
restraint of trade
,
retardation
,
retardment
,
retrenchment
,
self-control
,
setback
,
slack-up
,
slackening
,
slowdown
,
slowing
,
slowup
,
tariff wall
,
thought control
floppy
collapse
hanging limply; "a spaniel with floppy ears"
related words >
anemic
,
asthenic
,
bagging
,
baggy
,
ballooning
,
bloodless
,
chicken
,
cowardly
,
debilitated
,
drooping
,
droopy
,
dull
,
effete
,
etiolated
,
faint
,
faintish
,
feeble
,
flabby
,
flaccid
,
flimsy
,
gone
,
gutless
,
imbecile
,
impotent
,
languid
,
languorous
,
lax
,
limber
,
limp
,
listless
,
loose
,
lop
,
lop-eared
,
loppy
,
lustless
,
marrowless
,
nerveless
,
nodding
,
pithless
,
pooped
,
powerless
,
relaxed
,
rubbery
,
sagging
,
sagging in folds
,
saggy
,
sapless
,
sinewless
,
slack
,
sleazy
,
soft
,
spineless
,
strengthless
,
swag
,
unhardened
,
unnerved
,
unstrung
,
weak
,
weakly
gutless
collapse
lacking courage or vitality; "he was a yellow gutless worm"; "a spineless craven fellow"
related words >
anemic
,
asthenic
,
bloodless
,
chicken
,
coward
,
cowardly
,
craven
,
debilitated
,
drooping
,
droopy
,
dull
,
effete
,
etiolated
,
faint
,
faintish
,
feeble
,
flabby
,
flaccid
,
floppy
,
gone
,
gritless
,
heartless
,
imbecile
,
impotent
,
languid
,
languorous
,
lily-livered
,
limber
,
limp
,
listless
,
lustless
,
marrowless
,
nerveless
,
pithless
,
pluckless
,
poltroonish
,
pooped
,
powerless
,
pusillanimous
,
rubbery
,
sapless
,
sinewless
,
slack
,
soft
,
spineless
,
spiritless
,
spunkless
,
strengthless
,
uncourageous
,
undaring
,
ungallant
,
unhardened
,
unheroic
,
unintrepid
,
unmanly
,
unnerved
,
unsoldierlike
,
unsoldierly
,
unstrung
,
unvaliant
,
unvalorous
,
weak
,
weakly
slip out of
collapse
related words >
bow out
,
cast off
,
creep out of
,
depart
,
disappear
,
dodge
,
doff
,
dog it
,
douse
,
drop
,
duck
,
duck duty
,
duck out
,
escape
,
exit
,
find a loophole
,
get out of
,
go on furlough
,
go on leave
,
goldbrick
,
goof off
,
leave the scene
,
malinger
,
mooch off
,
not pull fair
,
put off
,
remove
,
shirk
,
shuffle out of
,
skulk
,
skulk away
,
slack
,
slide off
,
slide out of
,
slink off
,
slip away
,
slip off
,
slip out
,
slip through
,
slither off
,
sneak off
,
sneak out
,
sneak out of
,
sneak through
,
soldier
,
squirm out of
,
steal away
,
step out of
,
take leave
,
take off
,
throw off
,
undo
,
unwrap
,
welsh
,
worm out of
,
wriggle out of
tardy
collapse
related words >
ahead of time
,
anachronistic
,
antedated
,
arrested
,
back
,
backward
,
beforehand
,
behind
,
behind time
,
behindhand
,
belated
,
blocked
,
checked
,
dated
,
delayed
,
delayed-action
,
detained
,
dilatory
,
early
,
foredated
,
held up
,
hung up
,
impeded
,
in a bind
,
in abeyance
,
indolent
,
jammed
,
lackadaisical
,
languid
,
late
,
latish
,
lethargic
,
listless
,
metachronistic
,
misdated
,
mistimed
,
moratory
,
never on time
,
obstructed
,
out of date
,
out of season
,
overdue
,
parachronistic
,
past due
,
phlegmatic
,
postdated
,
prochronistic
,
reluctant
,
retarded
,
set back
,
slack
,
slothful
,
slow
,
slowed down
,
sluggish
,
stopped
,
unpunctual
,
unready
,
unseasonable
,
untimely
scatter
collapse
the act of scattering
a haphazard distribution in all directions
distribute loosely; "He scattered gun powder under the wagon"
sow by scattering; "scatter seeds"
related words >
atomize
,
bend
,
besprinkle
,
bestrew
,
bias
,
blow
,
break into pieces
,
break to pieces
,
break up
,
broadcast
,
cast
,
circulate
,
circumfuse
,
clutter
,
confound
,
crash
,
crook
,
crunch
,
crush
,
curve
,
cut to pieces
,
deactivate
,
deal out
,
debrief
,
deflect
,
deflection
,
deflexure
,
demob
,
demobilize
,
demolish
,
derange
,
detach
,
deviate
,
diffract
,
diffraction
,
diffuse
,
diffusion
,
disarrange
,
disarray
,
disband
,
discard
,
discharge
,
discomfit
,
dishevel
,
disintegrate
,
disjoin
,
dislocate
,
dismiss
,
disorder
,
disorganize
,
dispel
,
dispense
,
disperse
,
dispersion
,
dispread
,
disrupt
,
disseminate
,
dissipate
,
dissolve
,
distort
,
distortion
,
distribute
,
diverge
,
divert
,
divide
,
dogleg
,
ease
,
ease off
,
emanate
,
fan out
,
fission
,
flection
,
flexure
,
fragment
,
free
,
gamble away
,
go off
,
go separate ways
,
go through
,
grind
,
hairpin
,
hang the expense
,
issue
,
lavish
,
let go
,
let up
,
litter
,
loose
,
loosen
,
make mincemeat of
,
mess
,
mess up
,
mince
,
misarrange
,
muss
,
muss up
,
muster out
,
overscatter
,
oversow
,
overspread
,
panic
,
part
,
part company
,
propagate
,
publish
,
pull
,
pulverize
,
put to flight
,
put to rout
,
radiate
,
ray
,
refract
,
refraction
,
relax
,
release
,
retail
,
rout
,
ruffle
,
rumple
,
run through
,
seize the day
,
separate
,
sever
,
shatter
,
shed
,
shiver
,
shower
,
skew
,
skewness
,
slack
,
slack off
,
slacken
,
slather
,
smash
,
smash up
,
sow
,
sow broadcast
,
splay
,
splinter
,
split up
,
spread
,
spread out
,
sprinkle
,
squander
,
squash
,
squish
,
stampede
,
straw
,
strew
,
throw away
,
throw money around
,
torsion
,
tousle
,
turn
,
twist
,
unglue
,
unleash
,
unstick
,
utter
,
warp
,
zigzag
slowdown
collapse
the act of slowing down or falling behind
related words >
action
,
afterthought
,
arrest
,
bind
,
block
,
blockage
,
boom
,
bottoming out
,
boycott
,
boycottage
,
bureaucratic delay
,
business cycle
,
business fluctuations
,
bust
,
catabasis
,
check
,
cheeseparing
,
collapse
,
cooling
,
cooling down
,
cooling off
,
crash
,
crisis
,
curtailment
,
cutback
,
deceleration
,
declension
,
decline
,
decline and fall
,
decrescendo
,
delay
,
delayage
,
delayed reaction
,
depression
,
detention
,
diminuendo
,
dive
,
double take
,
downtrend
,
downturn
,
drag
,
dragging
,
drop
,
dwindling
,
ease-off
,
ease-up
,
ebb
,
economic cycle
,
economic expansion
,
economic growth
,
economization
,
economizing
,
expanding economy
,
expansion
,
fall
,
falloff
,
flagging
,
freeze
,
growth
,
halt
,
hang-up
,
high growth rate
,
hindrance
,
holdup
,
inactivity
,
interim
,
jam
,
job action
,
lag
,
lagging
,
lapse
,
letdown
,
letup
,
lockout
,
logjam
,
low
,
low growth rate
,
market expansion
,
minus acceleration
,
moratorium
,
obstruction
,
outlaw strike
,
paperasserie
,
pause
,
peak
,
peaking
,
plunge
,
prosperity
,
protest
,
recession
,
recovery
,
red tape
,
red-tapeism
,
red-tapery
,
reduction of expenses
,
reduction of spending
,
remission
,
reprieve
,
respite
,
retardance
,
retardation
,
retardment
,
retreat
,
retrenchment
,
revolt
,
rulebook slowdown
,
saving
,
scraping
,
scrimping
,
setback
,
sick-in
,
sit-down
,
sit-down strike
,
skimping
,
slack
,
slack-up
,
slackening
,
slow-up
,
slowing
,
slowing down
,
slowness
,
slowup
,
slump
,
sparing
,
stagnation
,
stay
,
stay of execution
,
stop
,
stoppage
,
strike
,
subsidence
,
suspension
,
sympathy strike
,
tie-up
,
time lag
,
turnout
,
upturn
,
wait
,
walkout
,
wane
,
wildcat strike
,
work stoppage
garbage
collapse
a receptacle where waste can be discarded; "she tossed the moldy bread into the garbage"
food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)
related words >
bilge
,
bilgewater
,
bones
,
carrion
,
chaff
,
crap
,
culm
,
deadwood
,
debris
,
detritus
,
dishwater
,
ditchwater
,
draff
,
dregs
,
dross
,
dust
,
filings
,
filth
,
gash
,
hogwash
,
husks
,
junk
,
kelter
,
leavings
,
lees
,
litter
,
muck
,
offal
,
offscourings
,
orts
,
parings
,
potsherds
,
rags
,
raspings
,
refuse
,
riffraff
,
rubbish
,
rubble
,
scourings
,
scrap iron
,
scraps
,
scum
,
scurf
,
sewage
,
sewerage
,
shards
,
shavings
,
slack
,
slag
,
slop
,
slops
,
slough
,
stubble
,
sweepings
,
swill
,
tares
,
trash
,
wastage
,
waste
,
waste matter
,
wastepaper
,
weeds
loitering
collapse
related words >
Micawberish
,
backward
,
coquetry
,
dabbling
,
dalliance
,
dallying
,
dawdling
,
delaying
,
dilatoriness
,
dilatory
,
dillydallying
,
dolce far niente
,
dragging
,
easygoing
,
fiddling
,
flirtation
,
fooling
,
fooling around
,
foot-dragging
,
goofing off
,
idling
,
jerking off
,
kidding around
,
lackadaisical
,
lag
,
laggard
,
lagging
,
lax
,
lazing
,
lazy
,
lingering
,
loafing
,
lolling
,
lollygagging
,
lounging
,
messing around
,
monkeying
,
monkeying around
,
mopery
,
piddling
,
playing
,
playing around
,
pottering
,
procrastinating
,
procrastination
,
procrastinative
,
procrastinatory
,
puttering
,
remiss
,
shilly-shallying
,
shuffling
,
slack
,
slow
,
sluggish
,
smattering
,
tarrying
,
tinkering
,
toying
,
trifling
behindhand
collapse
behind schedule; "was behindhand with the rent"
related words >
after time
,
ahead of time
,
anachronistic
,
antedated
,
arrested
,
back
,
backward
,
beforehand
,
behind
,
behind time
,
belated
,
belatedly
,
blocked
,
careless
,
dated
,
deep into
,
defaulting
,
delayed
,
delayed-action
,
delinquent
,
derelict
,
detained
,
disregardful
,
early
,
far on
,
foredated
,
held up
,
hung up
,
in a bind
,
in abeyance
,
in arrear
,
in arrears
,
jammed
,
late
,
latish
,
lax
,
metachronistic
,
misdated
,
mistimed
,
moratory
,
neglectful
,
never on time
,
none too soon
,
nonpaying
,
obstructed
,
out of date
,
out of season
,
overdue
,
parachronistic
,
past due
,
postdated
,
prochronistic
,
regardless
,
remiss
,
retarded
,
slack
,
slow
,
stopped
,
tardy
,
underdeveloped
,
undeveloped
,
unprogressive
,
unpunctual
,
unready
,
unseasonable
,
untimely
douse
collapse
slacken; "douse a rope"
lower quickly; "douse a sail"
wet thoroughly
put out, as of a candle or a light; "Douse the lights"
related words >
bang
,
baptize
,
bash
,
bat
,
belt
,
blow out
,
bop
,
bury
,
cast off
,
choke
,
crack
,
damp
,
deluge
,
dip
,
doff
,
drench
,
drop
,
drown
,
duck
,
dunk
,
engulf
,
extinguish
,
immerge
,
immerse
,
inundate
,
merge
,
out
,
overwhelm
,
plash
,
plunge in water
,
put off
,
put out
,
quench
,
remove
,
sink
,
slack
,
slam
,
slip out of
,
slop
,
slosh
,
smack
,
smash
,
smother
,
snuff
,
snuff out
,
soak
,
sop
,
souse
,
spatter
,
splatter
,
splosh
,
splurge
,
spurtle
,
stamp out
,
step out of
,
stifle
,
submerge
,
submerse
,
swash
,
take off
,
throw off
,
undo
,
unwrap
,
wet
,
whelm
powerless
collapse
lacking power
related words >
anemic
,
asthenic
,
bloodless
,
chicken
,
cowardly
,
crippled
,
debilitated
,
decrepit
,
disabled
,
drooping
,
droopy
,
dull
,
effete
,
etiolated
,
faint
,
faintish
,
featherweight
,
feeble
,
flabby
,
flaccid
,
floppy
,
forceless
,
gone
,
gutless
,
helpless
,
imbecile
,
impotent
,
inactive
,
incapable
,
incapacitated
,
incompetent
,
ineffective
,
ineffectual
,
inefficacious
,
inert
,
infirm
,
languid
,
languorous
,
lightweight
,
limber
,
limp
,
listless
,
lustless
,
marrowless
,
nerveless
,
no-account
,
of no account
,
passive
,
pithless
,
pooped
,
rubbery
,
sapless
,
sinewless
,
slack
,
soft
,
spineless
,
strengthless
,
supine
,
unable
,
unauthoritative
,
unfit
,
unhardened
,
unnerved
,
unstrung
,
weak
,
weakly
,
without any weight
dallying
collapse
related words >
Micawberish
,
backward
,
coquetry
,
dabbling
,
dalliance
,
dawdling
,
delaying
,
dilatoriness
,
dilatory
,
dillydallying
,
dolce far niente
,
dragging
,
easygoing
,
fiddling
,
flirtation
,
fooling
,
fooling around
,
foot-dragging
,
goofing off
,
idling
,
jerking off
,
kidding around
,
lackadaisical
,
lag
,
laggard
,
lagging
,
lax
,
lazing
,
lazy
,
lingering
,
loafing
,
loitering
,
lolling
,
lollygagging
,
lounging
,
messing around
,
monkeying
,
monkeying around
,
mopery
,
piddling
,
playing
,
playing around
,
pottering
,
procrastinating
,
procrastination
,
procrastinative
,
procrastinatory
,
puttering
,
remiss
,
shilly-shallying
,
shuffling
,
slack
,
slow
,
sluggish
,
smattering
,
tarriance
,
tarrying
,
tinkering
,
toying
,
trifling
,
waiting
bedraggled
collapse
limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud; "the beggar's bedraggled clothes"; "scarecrows in battered hats or draggled skirts"
in deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-down shack"
related words >
beat-up
,
befouled
,
besmirched
,
blowzy
,
careless
,
chintzy
,
decrepit
,
defiled
,
dilapidated
,
dirtied
,
dirty
,
down-at-heel
,
drabbled
,
drabbletailed
,
draggled
,
draggletailed
,
drenched
,
faded
,
fouled
,
frowzy
,
frumpish
,
frumpy
,
grubby
,
grungy
,
in rags
,
informal
,
loose
,
lumpen
,
messy
,
muddy
,
mussy
,
negligent
,
poky
,
ragged
,
raggedy
,
ruinous
,
run-down
,
scraggly
,
scruffy
,
seedy
,
shabby
,
shoddy
,
slack
,
slatternly
,
slipshod
,
sloppy
,
slovenly
,
sluttish
,
smirched
,
smudged
,
soaked
,
soiled
,
sordid
,
spotted
,
squalid
,
stained
,
sullied
,
tacky
,
tainted
,
tarnished
,
tattered
,
threadbare
,
unkempt
,
unneat
,
unsightly
,
untidy
,
wet
scraggly
collapse
lacking neatness or order; "the old man's scraggly beard"; "a scraggly little path to the door"
related words >
beat-up
,
bedraggled
,
blowzy
,
careless
,
chintzy
,
corrugated
,
cragged
,
craggy
,
crinkled
,
crumpled
,
dilapidated
,
drabbletailed
,
draggled
,
draggletailed
,
frowzy
,
frumpish
,
frumpy
,
gravelly
,
grubby
,
harsh
,
in rags
,
informal
,
ironbound
,
jagged
,
jaggy
,
loose
,
lumpen
,
messy
,
mussy
,
negligent
,
poky
,
ragged
,
raggedy
,
rockbound
,
rocky
,
rugged
,
rugose
,
rugous
,
ruinous
,
saw-toothed
,
sawtooth
,
scragged
,
scraggy
,
seedy
,
serrate
,
serrated
,
shabby
,
shoddy
,
slack
,
slatternly
,
slipshod
,
sloppy
,
slovenly
,
sluttish
,
snagged
,
snaggled
,
snaggy
,
sordid
,
squalid
,
stony
,
tacky
,
tattered
,
unkempt
,
unneat
,
unsightly
,
untidy
,
wrinkled
forgetful
collapse
failing to keep in mind; "forgetful of her responsibilities"; "oblivious old age"
related words >
Lethean
,
absent
,
absent-minded
,
absentminded
,
abstracted
,
airy
,
amnesiac
,
amnestic
,
bemused
,
blocked
,
careless
,
casual
,
converted
,
cursory
,
degage
,
disregardant
,
disregardful
,
distracted
,
dreaming
,
dreamy
,
easygoing
,
flippant
,
forgetting
,
free and easy
,
heedless
,
in the clouds
,
inattentive
,
inclined to forget
,
inconsiderate
,
indifferent
,
insouciant
,
lax
,
lazy
,
mindless
,
neglectful
,
negligent
,
oblivious
,
offhand
,
out of it
,
perfunctory
,
preoccupied
,
reckless
,
regardless
,
remiss
,
remote
,
repressed
,
respectless
,
slack
,
suppressed
,
tactless
,
thoughtless
,
unaccommodating
,
uncomplaisant
,
uncooperative
,
undiplomatic
,
unheedful
,
unheeding
,
unhelpful
,
unmindful
,
unobliging
,
unprepared
,
unready
,
unsolicitous
,
untactful
,
unthinking
,
unthoughtful
,
unwitting
stamp out
collapse
end or extinguish by forceful means; "Stamp out poverty!"
related words >
abscind
,
amputate
,
annihilate
,
ban
,
bar
,
blow out
,
bob
,
choke
,
clip
,
crop
,
cull
,
cut
,
cut away
,
cut off
,
cut out
,
damp
,
dock
,
douse
,
eliminate
,
enucleate
,
eradicate
,
except
,
excise
,
exclude
,
exterminate
,
extinguish
,
extirpate
,
isolate
,
knock off
,
lop
,
mutilate
,
nip
,
out
,
pare
,
peel
,
pick out
,
prune
,
put down
,
put out
,
quash
,
quell
,
quench
,
root out
,
rule out
,
set apart
,
set aside
,
shave
,
shear
,
silence
,
slack
,
smother
,
snuff
,
snuff out
,
squash
,
squelch
,
stifle
,
strangle
,
strike off
,
strip
,
strip off
,
suffocate
,
suppress
,
take off
,
take out
,
trample out
,
trample underfoot
,
truncate
,
wipe out
ringmaster
collapse
the person in charge of performances in a circus ring
related words >
MC
,
acrobat
,
aerialist
,
auteur
,
ballyhoo man
,
bareback rider
,
barker
,
callboy
,
circus artist
,
clown
,
costume designer
,
costumer
,
costumier
,
director
,
emcee
,
equestrian director
,
equilibrist
,
exhibitor
,
flier
,
high-wire artist
,
impresario
,
juggler
,
lion tamer
,
makeup man
,
master of ceremonies
,
playreader
,
producer
,
prompter
,
scenewright
,
set designer
,
showman
,
slack-rope artist
,
snake charmer
,
spieler
,
stage director
,
stage manager
,
sword swallower
,
theater man
,
theatrician
,
ticket collector
,
tightrope walker
,
trapeze artist
,
tumbler
,
usher
,
usherer
,
usherette
lees
collapse
the sediment from fermentation of an alcoholic beverage
related words >
alluvion
,
alluvium
,
ash
,
bones
,
chaff
,
cinder
,
clinker
,
culm
,
deadwood
,
deposition
,
deposits
,
diluvium
,
dishwater
,
draff
,
dregs
,
dross
,
dust
,
ember
,
feces
,
filings
,
froth
,
garbage
,
gash
,
grounds
,
hogwash
,
husks
,
leavings
,
loess
,
moraine
,
offal
,
offscourings
,
offscum
,
orts
,
parings
,
potsherds
,
precipitate
,
precipitation
,
rags
,
raspings
,
refuse
,
scoria
,
scourings
,
scrap iron
,
scraps
,
scum
,
sediment
,
settlings
,
shards
,
shavings
,
silt
,
sinter
,
slack
,
slag
,
slop
,
slops
,
smut
,
soot
,
stubble
,
sublimate
,
sweepings
,
swill
,
tares
,
wastage
,
waste
,
waste matter
,
wastepaper
,
weeds
dilatory
collapse
wasting time
inclined to waste time and lag behind
related words >
Micawberish
,
apathetic
,
backward
,
balking
,
balky
,
bone-lazy
,
cadging
,
dallying
,
dawdling
,
delaying
,
deliberate
,
dillydallying
,
do-nothing
,
doless
,
dragging
,
dronish
,
drony
,
easy
,
easygoing
,
ergophobic
,
faineant
,
foot-dragging
,
good-for-nothing
,
grudging
,
indifferent
,
indolent
,
lackadaisical
,
laggard
,
lagging
,
lax
,
lazy
,
leisurely
,
lingering
,
loath
,
loitering
,
lollygagging
,
neglectful
,
negligent
,
nonaggressive
,
parasitic
,
perfunctory
,
procrastinating
,
procrastinative
,
procrastinatory
,
reluctant
,
remiss
,
renitent
,
restive
,
scrounging
,
shiftless
,
shilly-shallying
,
shuffling
,
slack
,
slothful
,
slow
,
slow to
,
sluggish
,
sponging
,
tarrying
,
unenterprising
,
unenthusiastic
,
unhasty
,
unhurried
,
unzealous
,
work-shy
scrounging
collapse
related words >
abstraction
,
annexation
,
appropriation
,
beggary
,
begging
,
bone-lazy
,
boosting
,
bumming
,
cadging
,
conversion
,
conveyance
,
dilatory
,
do-nothing
,
doless
,
dronish
,
drony
,
easy
,
embezzlement
,
ergophobic
,
faineant
,
filching
,
fraud
,
good-for-nothing
,
graft
,
indolent
,
laggard
,
lax
,
lazy
,
liberation
,
lifting
,
mendicancy
,
mendicant
,
mendicity
,
mooching
,
nonaggressive
,
panhandling
,
parasitic
,
petitionary
,
pilferage
,
pilfering
,
pinching
,
poaching
,
prayerful
,
precative
,
procrastinative
,
remiss
,
shiftless
,
shoplifting
,
slack
,
slothful
,
slow
,
snatching
,
sneak thievery
,
snitching
,
sponging
,
stealage
,
stealing
,
suppliant
,
supplicant
,
supplicating
,
supplicatory
,
swindle
,
swiping
,
theft
,
thievery
,
thieving
,
unenterprising
,
work-shy
dishwater
collapse
water in which dishes and cooking utensils are washed
related words >
bilge
,
bilgewater
,
bones
,
cambric tea
,
carrion
,
chaff
,
cobweb
,
culm
,
deadwood
,
ditchwater
,
draff
,
dregs
,
dust
,
filings
,
garbage
,
gash
,
gossamer
,
gruel
,
hair
,
hogwash
,
house of cards
,
husks
,
leavings
,
lees
,
matchwood
,
milk and water
,
offal
,
offscourings
,
orts
,
parings
,
potsherds
,
rags
,
raspings
,
reed
,
refuse
,
riffraff
,
rope of sand
,
sand castle
,
scourings
,
scrap iron
,
scraps
,
scum
,
scurf
,
sewage
,
sewerage
,
shards
,
shavings
,
slack
,
slag
,
slop
,
slops
,
slough
,
stubble
,
sweepings
,
swill
,
tares
,
thread
,
wastage
,
waste
,
waste matter
,
wastepaper
,
water
,
weeds
turtlelike
collapse
related words >
ambling
,
cautious
,
circumspect
,
claudicant
,
crawling
,
creeping
,
creeping like snail
,
deliberate
,
easy
,
faltering
,
flagging
,
foot-dragging
,
gentle
,
gradual
,
halting
,
hobbled
,
hobbling
,
idle
,
indolent
,
languid
,
languorous
,
lazy
,
leisurely
,
limping
,
lumbering
,
moderate
,
poking
,
poky
,
relaxed
,
reluctant
,
sauntering
,
shuffling
,
slack
,
slothful
,
slow
,
slow as death
,
slow as molasses
,
slow as slow
,
slow-crawling
,
slow-foot
,
slow-going
,
slow-legged
,
slow-moving
,
slow-paced
,
slow-poky
,
slow-running
,
slow-sailing
,
slow-stepped
,
sluggish
,
snail-paced
,
snaillike
,
staggering
,
strolling
,
tentative
,
toddling
,
tortoiselike
,
tottering
,
trudging
,
unhurried
,
waddling
grubby
collapse
small sculpin of the coast of New England
infested with grubs
related words >
beat-up
,
bedraggled
,
beset
,
black
,
blowzy
,
careless
,
chintzy
,
dilapidated
,
dingy
,
dirty
,
drabbletailed
,
draggled
,
draggletailed
,
dusty
,
filthy
,
foul
,
frowzy
,
frumpish
,
frumpy
,
grimy
,
grungy
,
impure
,
in rags
,
infested
,
informal
,
loose
,
lousy
,
lumpen
,
messy
,
miry
,
muddy
,
mussy
,
nasty
,
negligent
,
pedicular
,
pediculous
,
plagued
,
poky
,
ragged
,
raggedy
,
ratty
,
ravaged
,
ruinous
,
scraggly
,
scruffy
,
seedy
,
shabby
,
shoddy
,
slack
,
slatternly
,
slipshod
,
sloppy
,
slovenly
,
sluttish
,
smirchy
,
smoky
,
smudgy
,
smutchy
,
smutty
,
snuffy
,
soily
,
sooty
,
sordid
,
squalid
,
tacky
,
tattered
,
teeming
,
unclean
,
uncleanly
,
unkempt
,
unneat
,
unsightly
,
untidy
,
wormy
flabby
collapse
related words >
anemic
,
asthenic
,
baccate
,
baggy
,
bloodless
,
chicken
,
cowardly
,
debilitated
,
doughy
,
drooping
,
droopy
,
dull
,
effete
,
enervated
,
etiolated
,
faint
,
faintish
,
feeble
,
flaccid
,
fleshy
,
flimsy
,
floppy
,
forceless
,
gone
,
gutless
,
imbecile
,
impotent
,
ineffective
,
ineffectual
,
languid
,
languorous
,
lax
,
limber
,
limp
,
listless
,
loose
,
lustless
,
macerated
,
marrowless
,
masticated
,
mushy
,
nerveless
,
pasty
,
pendulous
,
pithless
,
pithy
,
pooped
,
powerless
,
pulpal
,
pulpar
,
pulped
,
pulplike
,
pulpy
,
quaggy
,
relaxed
,
rubbery
,
sagging
,
sapless
,
sinewless
,
slack
,
sleazy
,
soft
,
spineless
,
spiritless
,
spongy
,
squashy
,
squelchy
,
squishy
,
strengthless
,
succulent
,
unhardened
,
unnerved
,
unstrung
,
weak
,
weakly
,
yielding
,
,
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